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Windsurfing : an extreme form of material and embodied interaction? / Dant, Tim; Wheaton, Belinda.
In: Anthropology Today, Vol. 23, No. 6, 12.2007, p. 8-12.

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Dant T, Wheaton B. Windsurfing : an extreme form of material and embodied interaction? Anthropology Today. 2007 Dec;23(6):8-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2007.00547.x

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Dant, Tim ; Wheaton, Belinda. / Windsurfing : an extreme form of material and embodied interaction?. In: Anthropology Today. 2007 ; Vol. 23, No. 6. pp. 8-12.

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